Headlines 11 September 2025

U.S. flags to be lowered

WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. flags be lowered to half-staff through Sunday evening after Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of the president, was shot and killed at an event on a Utah university campus.

"In honor of Charlie Kirk, a truly Great American Patriot, I am ordering all American Flags throughout the United States lowered to Half Mast until Sunday evening at 6 p.m.," the president wrote on Truth Social. 

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DeWine orders flags lowered on Patriot Day in honor of 9/11 victims

COLUMBUS – In honor of those killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Governor Mike DeWine has ordered the flags of the United States and the state of Ohio to be flown at half-staff upon all public buildings and grounds throughout Ohio from sunrise to sunset on September 11, 2025. 

Governor DeWine asks that all Ohioans observe a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 a.m. to honor the innocent lives lost as a result of the terrorist attacks. 

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